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There's Gold in Them Hills (opens the original)
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Recently my team completed a project to automate one of the most painful and hated tasks in our company. It came up in every focus group, survey, and discussion as one of our biggest time wasters. It was at the top of our list for efficiency opportunities. It took us a year to streamline and unify the policies across our global teams that drove the task, build and deploy the technical solution, and execute the change management across thousands of stakeholders. And it’s beautiful. The solution d
Omniscience and Prosperity (opens the original)
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I’m a terrible guitar player. I really am. Every so often I’ll hear a riff that makes me want to tune up my guitar and give it a try. It’s kind of weird that I do that if you think about it. I mean, what’s the point? Jimmy Page played it perfectly, it was recorded and mixed in a studio, and is available digitally for me to listen to as much as I want. If I want to hear Over The Hills and Far Away, playing it myself is probably the least efficient way to do it.Than
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